Parallel::ForkManager will take care of all this for you.

Without that, I like to keep track of child pid's with a hash. That lets me call scalar keys %kid for a count of forked kids, delete $kid{+wait} to sleep until another child exits, and delete $kid{+wait} while %kid; to finish. That all makes it unnecessary to modify $SIG{CHLD} unless you have things to do other than sleep while the kids work.

Don't try to manage pid's from piped open that way. Everything's taken care of when the file handle is closed.

After Compline,
Zaxo

In reply to Re: Controlling number of processes Forked by Zaxo
in thread Controlling number of processes Forked by raynmaker

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